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Marriage negotiations constituted a key element in Elizabeth's foreign policy.
She turned down Philip II's own hand in 1559, and negotiated for several years to marry his cousin Archduke Charles of Austria.
By 1569, relations with the Habsburgs had deteriorated, and Elizabeth considered marriage to two French Valois princes in turn, first Henry, Duke of Anjou, and later, from 1572 to 1581, his brother Francis, Duke of Anjou, formerly Duke of Alençon.
This last proposal was tied to a planned alliance against Spanish control of the Southern Netherlands.
Elizabeth seems to have taken the courtship seriously for a time, and wore a frog-shaped earring that Anjou had sent her.

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